[Werthead]

George RR Martin has released the first of eight podcasts he is doing for his publisher. The first podcast covers the origin and development of A Song of Ice and Fire. The podcast can be accessed via this link (http://www.westeros.org/ASoWS/News/Entry/1725/).

[Phantos]

Thanks Wert.

[Posher]

I listened to the podcast...Most of it was stuff he's said in other places but some of it was new..Dose anyone know when the next podcast will be released? it'll be interesting to see what he talks about in these..

[Werthead]

Not sure, but I think it's going to be one a week.

[Werthead]

Spoke too soon. The second podcast (http://www.westeros.org/ASoWS/News/Entry/1726/) is up now :D

GRRM discusses how he started life as a writer.

[JamesL]

Yeah, much of the first episode I'd already heard from when I went to his book signing in manchester.

Still, I'm sure there will be plenty of new insights in the following instalments and I'm looking forward very much to listening to the next episode.

[Phantos]

Spoke too soon. The second podcast (http://www.westeros.org/ASoWS/News/Entry/1726/) is up now :D

GRRM discusses how he started life as a writer.
great. thanks for the heads up. downloaded 2.
I subscribed via itunes to his podcasts, but epi2 isn't there yet.
weird.

[Hobbit]

Thanks again, Wert. Downloading it now....

Hobbit

[Werthead]

Hmm. When he said 'started' he's not kidding. It about how he wrote stories as a kid and that led to him being published in his early twenties. Some funny bits there (him scaring the neighbours' kids with his stories is particularly amusing).

[Blackadder]

Just before I download them, could I ask if it were spoiler-free?